Etymology

contraflow

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Today it means: Flow in the opposite direction to normal. Full definition →

English flow ← Middle English flowe ← Old English flōwan
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*ḱe?
  2. Proto-Indo-European*ḱóm
  3. Proto-Italic*kom
  4. Proto-Italic*kom-
  5. Proto-Italic*komteros
  6. Proto-Italic*komterād
  7. Latincontrā
  8. Englishcontra-
  9. Proto-Indo-European*plew-
  10. Proto-Indo-European*plōw-der.?
  11. Proto-Indo-European*plew-
  12. Proto-Indo-European*pleh₃(w)-der.?
  13. Proto-Germanic*flōaną
  14. Proto-West Germanic*flōan
  15. Old Englishflōwan
  16. Middle Englishflowen
  17. Middle Englishflowe
  18. Englishflow
  19. English todaycontraflow

From contra- + flow.

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